Ryan de Ryke

Ryan de Ryke, baritone
Daniel Schlosberg, piano

Ticket prices: $ 15 General / $ 10 seniors & students

Schubert in Nature

The Sun, The Moon and The Stars
An die Sonne, D. 270 (Baumberg)
An den Mond, D. 193 (Hölty)
Die Sterne, D. 939 (Leitner)

Man and Mountain
Über Wildemann, D. 884 (Schulze)
Auf der Riesenkoppe, D. 611 (Körner)
Auf der Bruck, D. 853 (Schulze)

Water Music
Der Jüngling an der Quelle, D. 300 (Salis-Seewis)
Auf der Donau, D. 553 (Mayrhofer)
Des Fischers Liebesglück, D. 933 (Leitner)

Forest Murmurs
Im Haine, D. 738 (Bruchmann)
Die Gebüsche, D. 646 (F. Schlegel)
Im Walde [Waldesnacht], D. 708 (F. Schlegel)

Four Seasons
Mailied, D. 503 (Hölty)
Die Sommernacht, D. 289b (Klopstock)
Herbst, D. 945 (Rellstab)
Der Winterabend, D. 938 (Leitner)

ABOUT THE ARTISTS:

Ryan de Ryke is a young artist whose versatility and unique musical presence have made him increasingly in demand on both sides of the Atlantic. He has performed at many of the leading international music festivals including the Aldeburgh Festival in the UK and the festival at Aix-en-Provence in France. He has also developed an artistic partnership with famed British pianist Roger Vignoles.

Apart from his exciting recital career, Ryan appears regularly as a soloist in much Oratorio work including Handel's Messiah, the Passions by Bach and Schütz, Bach's Weinachts-Oratorio, B-minor Mass, Magnificat and solo cantata "Ich habe genug". He has worked with many early music ensembles including the Orchestra of the 17th Century, the Baltimore Handel Choir, the Bach Sinfonia, the Ciciliana Quartet, the Apollo Chorus of Chicago and the American Opera Theater. Ryan's operatic roles include the title roles in Monteverdi's l'Orfeo, Purcell's Dido and Aeneas, Blow's Venus and Adonis, and Giove in Cavalli's La Calisto. He has also performed the role of Nardo in Mozart's La Finta Giardiniera with the Bay Area Summer Opera in San Francisco, and the role of Oberon in Britten's Midsummer Night's Dream.

Ryan is equally at home in Romantic and Contemporary repertoire, regularly performing works like Mussorgsky's Songs and Dances of Death, Vaughan William's Five Mystical Songs, Orff's Carmina Burana, Beethoven's 9th Symphony, Dvorak's Stabat Mater, and Richard Einhorn's Voices of Light. He has also given performances of Dallapicola's Rencesvals with Neil Sissons, director of the Dallapiccola Ensemble in London. Ryan made his Weill Recital Hall debut as a finalist with the New York Oratorio Society, and later returned to the Zankel hall as a finalist in the Marilyn Horne masterclass competition. Ryan is an alumnus of the Britten-Pears Institute where he worked with Roger Vignoles. He has also studied at the Royal Academy of Music in London with Ian Partridge, the Peabody Conservatory with John Shirley-Quirk, King's College London with Lawrence Dreyfus, and the National Conservatory of Luxembourg with Georges Backes. In 2007 he received a fellowship at the Franz Schubert institute in Austria where he worked with Elly Ameling, Rudolf Jansen, Julius Drake, and Helmut Deutsch.

He is a featured artist on the Peabody Conservatory's CD Music for the World and Songs to Remember, published by Yorktown Press, Inc. Ryan's recital partners include Roger Vignoles, Daniel Schlosberg, Michael Sheppard, Nicholas Rimmer, and Eva Menglekoch, with whom he will embark on a tour of Europe in the Fall of 2009.

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Daniel Schlosberg has been described as an "expert pianist" (Boston Globe), and his performances have been praised for their "intellect and passion" (Washington Post). As a collaborative pianist, Tim Smith of the Baltimore Sun wrote: "Daniel Schlosberg was a model accompanist, bringing out the remarkable richness of the piano writing."

In recent seasons, he has given solo and chamber music recitals at a number of important venues and series, including Bargemusic (Brooklyn), Austrian Cultural Forum (NYC), Sundays Live (Los Angeles), Dame Myra Hess Series (Chicago), and the Phillips Collection and at the embassies of Romania, Israel, Austria and Germany in Washington, D.C. He also appears frequently on radio stations nationwide.

He is an avid proponent of new music and was a founding member of Yarn/Wire, the piano and percussion quartet. He has also collaborated with Third Coast Percussion, the International Contemporary Ensemble, and pianist Amy Briggs. Another particular interest is song accompaniment, and he has a long-standing duo with the baritone Ryan de Ryke.

In 2007, Mr. Schlosberg curated and performed in a series of sixconcerts nationwide exploring the early chamber music and lieder of Erich Wolfgang Korngold.

For two years, he served as an accompanist in Shelter Island, NY and Sarasota, Fl., with the Perlman Music Program, led by violinist Itzhak Perlman. In the summer of 2000, Mr. Schlosberg held the Leonard Bernstein Fellowship in Piano at Tanglewood. The same summer, he took part in a special collaboration with the Paul Taylor Dance Company at the Jacob's Pillow Festival in performances of solo Debussy. Other appearances of note include at Weill and Zankel Halls, and with the Notre Dame Chamber Players.

Mr. Schlosberg grew up in Los Angeles, and studied at the Peabody Conservatory with Ann Schein and at Stony Brook University with Gilbert Kalish. He also took supplementary study in song accompaniment as a full-scholarship student at the Britten Pears Institute (Aldebugh) and the Franz Schubert Institut (Baden).

He currently is Artist-in-Residence at the University of Notre Dame.